Donn Spight, M.D., F.A.C.S., F.A.S.M.B.S.

  • Professor of Surgery, Division of Bariatric Surgery, School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Donn Spight is a Professor of Surgery at Oregon Health and Science University and a staff physician in the Operative Care Division at the Portland VA Medical Center. Dr. Spight went to Medical School at Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois and did his General Surgery training at the University of Cincinnati. He completed his Minimally Invasive Surgery fellowship at Oregon Health and Science University in 2007. His clinical interests include laparoscopic and robotic foregut surgery including Bariatrics.

Dr. Spight is actively involved in healthcare training and has served as the Medical Director for OHSU Simulation since 2018. Dr. Spight is a former Associate Program Director in the Department of Surgery Residency and was an inaugural Diversity Navigator in the School of Medicine from 2019-2022. He is passionate about health equity and serves on numerous community Boards including the North By Northeast community Health clinic and REAP (Reaching and Empowering All People). Dr. Spight currently co-leads OHSU’s vaccine equity work to ensure every Oregonian has the opportunity to be vaccinated.

Education and training

  • Degrees

    • M.D., 1999, Northwestern University Medical School

  • Residency

    • General Surgery, University of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1999-2006

  • Fellowship

    • Minimally Invasive Surgery, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, OR., 2007

  • Certifications

    • Oregon State Board of Medical Examiners
    • American Board of Surgery, 2008
    • Robotic Surgery Certification, Intuitive Surgical , 2017

Memberships and associations:

  • American College of Surgeons, Fellow
  • Society of Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons
  • Society of Black Academic Surgeons
  • Society of Surgeons of the Alimentary Tract
  • Mackenzie Society

Honors and awards

  • David W.E. Baird Award, Excellence in Teaching: Junior Faculty, OHSU School of Medicine, 2013

Publications

Elsevier pure profile

Publications

  • Establishing a multidisciplinary cavernous carotid injury simulation to train neurosurgical, otolaryngology, and anesthesia residents

    Journal of Visualized Experiments
    1. Brandon Lucke-Wold
    2. Haley E. Gillham
    3. Mark Baskerville
    4. William E. Cameron
    5. Dawn Dillman
    6. Caleb A. Haley
    7. Michele Noles
    8. Donn Spight
    9. Jeremy N. Ciporen

  • Factors influencing amount of guidance in the operating room during laparoscopic cases

    American journal of surgery
    1. Heather E. Hoops
    2. Caleb Haley
    3. Mackenzie R. Cook
    4. Olga Lopez
    5. Elizabeth Dewey
    6. Karen J. Brasel
    7. Donn Spight
    8. Laszlo Kiraly

  • Resident autonomy in the operating room

    American journal of surgery
    1. Heather Hoops
    2. Aaron Heston
    3. Elizabeth Dewey
    4. Donn Spight
    5. Karen Brasel
    6. Laszlo Kiraly

  • Weight loss and co-morbidity resolution between different races and ethnicities after gastric bypass

    Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
    1. Michael Turner
    2. Yalini Vigneswaran
    3. Elizabeth Dewey
    4. Bruce Wolfe
    5. Andrea M. Stroud
    6. Donn Spight
    7. David R. Flum
    8. Anita Courcoulas
    9. James E. Mitchell
    10. Walter J. Pories
    11. Alfons Pomp
    12. Farah A. Husain

  • Crisis Management Simulation

    Journal of Neurosurgical Anesthesiology
    1. Jeremy Ciporen
    2. Haley Gillham
    3. Michele Noles
    4. Dawn Dillman
    5. Mark Baskerville
    6. Caleb Haley
    7. Donn Spight
    8. Ryan C. Turner
    9. Brandon P. Lucke-Wold

  • Impact of Preoperative Weight Loss on Postoperative Weight Loss after Sleeve Gastrectomy

    Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care
    1. Abhishek D. Parmar
    2. Joseph M. Drosdeck
    3. Samer Mattar
    4. Donn Spight
    5. Farah A. Husain

  • PGY-specific benchmarks improve resident performance on Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery tasks

    American journal of surgery
    1. Heather E. Hoops
    2. Caleb Haley
    3. Laszlo Kiraly
    4. Elena An
    5. Karen J. Brasel
    6. Donn Spight

  • Risk factors for early postoperative complications after bariatric surgery

    Annals of Surgical Treatment and Research
    1. Farah Husain
    2. In Ho Jeong
    3. Donn Spight
    4. Bruce Wolfe
    5. Samer G. Mattar

  • What is the future of training in surgery? Needs assessment of national stakeholders

    Surgery (United States)
    1. Sara Kim
    2. Brian J. Dunkin
    3. John T. Paige
    4. Jane M. Eggerstedt
    5. Cate Nicholas
    6. Melina C. Vassilliou
    7. Donn H. Spight
    8. Jose F. Pliego
    9. Robert M. Rush
    10. James N. Lau
    11. Robert O. Carpenter
    12. Daniel J. Scott

  • Realistic distractions and interruptions that impair simulated surgical performance by novice surgeons

    Archives of Surgery
    1. Robin L. Feuerbacher
    2. Kenneth H. Funk
    3. Donn H. Spight
    4. Brian S. Diggs
    5. John G. Hunter

  • Granulocyte-macrophage-colony-stimulating factor-dependent peritoneal macrophage responses determine survival in experimentally induced peritonitis and sepsis in mice

    Shock
    1. Donn Spight
    2. Bruce Trapnell
    3. Bin Zhao
    4. Pierre Berclaz
    5. Thomas P. Shanley

  • Predictors of technical skill acquisition among resident trainees in a laparoscopic skills education program

    World journal of surgery
    1. Corey Van Hove
    2. Kyle A. Perry
    3. Donn H. Spight
    4. Krissy Wheeler-Mcinvaille
    5. Brian S. Diggs
    6. Brett C. Sheppard
    7. Blair A. Jobe
    8. Robert W. O'Rourke

  • Psychiatric illness delays diagnosis of esophageal cancer

    Diseases of the Esophagus
    1. R. W. O'rourke
    2. B. S. Diggs
    3. D. H. Spight
    4. J. Robinson
    5. K. A. Elder
    6. J. Andrus
    7. C. R. Thomas
    8. J. G. Hunter
    9. Blair A. Jobe

  • Revisional bariatric surgery for failed restrictive procedures

    Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases
    1. Brian A. Coakley
    2. Clifford W. Deveney
    3. Donn H. Spight
    4. Sarah K. Thompson
    5. David Le
    6. Blair A. Jobe
    7. Bruce M. Wolfe
    8. Donald B. McConnell
    9. Robert W. O'Rourke

  • Immunoregulatory effects of regulated, lung-targeted expression of IL-10 in vivo

    American Journal of Physiology - Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology
    1. Donn Spight
    2. Bin Zhao
    3. Michael Haas
    4. Susan Wert
    5. Alvin Denenberg
    6. Thomas P. Shanley

  • Heat shock inhibition of lipopolysaccharide-mediated tumor necrosis factor expression is associated with nuclear induction of MKP-1 and inhibition of mitogen-activated protein kinase activation

    Critical care medicine
    1. Lauren Sanlorenzo
    2. Bin Zhao
    3. Donn Spight
    4. Alvin G. Denenberg
    5. Kristen Page
    6. Hector R. Wong
    7. Thomas P. Shanley

  • The A2A receptor mediates an endogenous regulatory pathway of cytokine expression in THP-1 cells

    Journal of Leukocyte Biology
    1. Khaled Bshesh
    2. Bin Zhao
    3. Donn Spight
    4. Italo Biaggioni
    5. Igor Feokistov
    6. Alvin Denenberg
    7. Hector R. Wong
    8. Thomas P. Shanley

  • Nucleotide sequence and transcriptional analysis of the celD β-glucanase gene from Ruminococcus flavefaciens FD-1

    Canadian Journal of Microbiology
    1. P. E. Vercoe
    2. D. H. Spight
    3. B. A. White